Houston's Fort(Text of Historical Marker)1769: Thomas McCulloch etablished the first settlement on this site in what is now Scott County.1771: The settlement was abandoned in fear of Indian attack. 1774: William Houston - - assignee of Thomas McCulloch -- constructed a fort here.
1776: A large force of Cherokee Indians attacked the fort, and messenger Samuel Cowan was killed and scalped.

1776, Houston's Fort, Virginia: Birth of another son to Hanna Hobbs Oglesby & James King Carr, at Hannah & James' ages 37:- 1776 Jan 29: William
Carr (d.Dec 12,1856)1796: Married Elizabeth Dobbins (1778-1838) See Elizabeth Dobbins (1778-1838) & William
Carr (1776-1856) -- parents of William King Carr (1816-1885).
1782, Houston's Fort, Virginia: Death of James King Carr, the father of the family, age 43, of smallpox (source of reason for death: Jerry Carr's web posting.)James King Carr's family ages at the time of his 1782 death:- Hannah Hobbs Oglesby Carr, age 43
- John "Uncle Jackie" Carr, age 9
- William Carr, age 6
- 6 other children, the oldest already married

1782: Hannah Hobbs Oglesby Carr, age 43, & Family moved from Houston's Fort, Virginia to "Middle Tennessee" in the Nashville area, eventually to Hartsville.
After the 1782 death of the family's father James King Carr, the family's mother -- Hannah Hobbs Oglesby
Carr, age 43 and her 8 children (the oldest already married) -- left Houston's Fort, Virginia
and travelled along the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap into Cumberland
River Country of Middle Tennessee. They first went to Mansker's Station, Tennessee, a
fort on the west side of Mansker’s Creek about three or four hundred yards
below the site of Walton’s Campground -- in current-day eastern Nashville. The
next year they moved to Hamilton's Station, on
Drake's Creek, a short distance above ShackelIsland.
Sources: Jay Guy Cisco (1909)Historic
Sumner County, Tennessee www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/sumncarr.htm& John Carr, (1857) Early Times in Middle Tennessee.

1806, in possibly the Hartsville, Tennessee area: Death of Hannah HobbsOglesby Carr, age 67
2010-10-20
First created -- extracted info from Carr/Kerr pageMore work:
2010/11/13